<p>According to [AP</a> Pass - AP Environmental Science Calculator](<a href=“http://appass.com/calculators/environmentalscience]AP”>AP Environmental Science Test Score Calculator - AP Pass) that would be a 5 (just barely).</p>
<p>@krrgn3 Do you think this year’s curve will be easier?</p>
<p>@LaPanthere Hopefully, but I’m not sure, sorry.</p>
<p>I am also wondering about the curve. I’m not trying to brag or anything, but after the test, a lot of people said they beasted the test. I’m leaning towards maybe 80-85 mult choice with a probable FRQ score of 6-10-8-7(I’d like to say I like my chances on the math questions. I have a feeling I messed up on the first FRQ). I thought it would be hard to get a five. HOWEVER, the scale is relative to how people did overall. I compared this to the 1998 scale. I think we can all agree that 1998 Mult choice was much easier than today’s(I personally got a 95/100) and the Scale was 111-150 for a 5. So hopefully the raw score for a five will be less than 111.</p>
<p>LOL yeah same here pretty much. I started studying for APES this weekend and just reread the two study guides I had over and over again. Honestly, I don’t think Princeton Review prepared me adequately enough. I felt like I was spending more time memorizing esoteric acts and details than important concepts. If you left 7 (MC) blank, you definitely have a chance for a 5 because assuming you got the other questions right, that is still a 93% on the MC. By looking at past scoring, it seems like anything above ~74% (total) should get you a 5 so if you got around 90/100 of the MC right and did adequately on the FRQ, you should have an easy 5.</p>
<p>Ugh, same here. I used the Princeton review as review and I don’t think it prepared me well enough for the MC section. LOL That MC was brutal.
On the brighter side, yeah, the FRQ was pretty nice. 
(Though I probably screwed up on one of the questions, haha)</p>
<p>The MC was more difficult than usual. I usually get 90/100 right and I feel like I may have gotten as low as 75-85 instead. </p>
<p>FRQ’s were cake. I read over ozone in my car waiting for the exam doors to open, so awesome!</p>
<p>I used Barrons instead. This is why I don’t think the multiple choice was very hard(I actually thought they were easy). Barrons multiple choice was crazy hard and I kept getting 70s or 75s on the multiple choice sections. Compared to Barrons mult choice, these were not that bad.</p>
<p>Also does anyone know when the release the FRQ rubric. I know they release the questions in a couple of days.</p>
<p>I read the entire PR 2013 book last night LOL that was my only studying. I didn’t learn anything in class and used a lot of my biology knowledge. Blah.</p>
<p>Oh goodness, with all the MC comments you guys are making, I don’t even wanna think about it :P</p>
<p>What sucks is that I had the SAT on Saturday and crashed (so much precious studying time lost…) I’m running on four hours of sleep right now! 
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<p>I used Crash Course and PR for my review books (I self studied)</p>
<p>I do hope that the curve is nice this year.</p>
<p>Huh. I thought I got within the 85-90 range on the MC, but hearing all this is making me a little worried that I misread a bunch of questions. I had a really good teacher though, who organized everything so that our pollution unit came up about a month ago, so everything was fresh. And by pure luck I’d decided to study a ton of population stuff over the weekend because that had been my weakest unit, so that might have been it.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the FRQs seemed to vary. If I had to approximate, I’d score it an 8-7-6-5, which is a 26. That seems to be a low 5, but I guess we’ll all just have to wait until July.</p>
<p>@AcornCRL
I know right haha. I was relatively confident but these posts sorta burst my bubble XD</p>
<p>remember a lot of these comments are from people who only studied the night before XD. I’m only a little worried about my math and knowledge of Ozone.</p>
<p>I think it was a hard exam, but it wasn’t hard for me. I had a good textbook and a teacher that tried her best to teach us even though few students cared. If you have any friends that are self studying, I recommend they get the Friedland textbook and read it thoroughly throughout the year. It’s very interesting, well-written, and well-layed-out. It may be best for those actually interested in environmental science, but it’s still the best decision either way. I didn’t use a review book unless just answering multiple choice questions counts, and I’m sure I nearly aced the FRQs and did well on the multiple choice. Sometimes, it’s best to actually learn the subject rather than put a ton of info in your short term memory to show off to colleges.</p>
<p>I want to self study APES next year… what are your study guide recommendations?</p>
<p>@magnusbane
I know the biggest help for me in self studying was that I’d already taken AP bio. I’m not all that impressed with my text book. I’m sorry if thats not much help.</p>
<p>I’ll be taking AP Bio as a class next year so that probably will help :)</p>
<p>@magnus
Yup, I’m taking AP Bio this year and that helped with ecology and succession
I’d recommend Crash Course because its presented in an easy to read outline format.</p>
<p>On another note, did anyone else lol at the question on acid rain where one of the options was Canadian paper factories/mills? haha</p>
<p>@noocie: Well… I guess it could make sense. :P</p>
<p>Did anyone find smartypants to be helpful at all? Lol. I used it, but I felt like it was really limited and flawed. People have said that smartypants is amazing in the past, but I think that I could have probably learned the same amount of information just by reading PR.</p>